We went with a Telino S in the end (
https://www.trelino.com/products/trelino-s-composting-toilet) and super happy with it. It’s not cheap but there was nothing else that compared with it.
We use it for emergencies and for night time. With a women and two fairly young kids, the pee-in-a-bottle thing wasn’t going to fly. Didn’t fancy having to clean off pee sprayed onto seats, kitchen cupboards, bedding and into the seat rails.
The trelino is a tiny bit too long to fit in the kitchen cupboard. But it fits perfectly in the boot and in front of the bed downstairs at night.
What we like about it:
- It doesn’t look like a toilet. It looks like a storage box with a nice wooden lid. So it doubles up as a handy seat for one of the kids when we eat outside.
- No chemicals.
- No smells (but haven’t tried poo yet)
- Unlike a standard toilet where pee and poo end up in the same place (resulting in stinky and toxic sewage), with the trelino, pee goes in a plastic bottle while poo goes in compostable bag.
- You can empty the pee bottle in any toilet or anywhere suitable in nature (no chemicals…). No need to find specialised disposal points (which to be honest we’ve not yet seen in our 3 weeks of owning the van. I’m not quite sure what a chemical toilet disposal place looks like or where to find them).
- Haven’t had to use it for poo yet. In theory, we can keep the poo in there and cover it with litter to avoid smells. Or take the bag out and throw it out in a dog bin or a normal bin as you would with a nappy.
It’s all pretty neat.